Hatshepsut, Queen of ShebaAlgora Publishing, 2012 - 188 من الصفحات Over the centuries the figure of the Queen of Sheba has loomed large in poetry and romance. The mysterious Queen, who is said to have visited Solomon in Jerusalem, has cast her spell over poets, painters and storytellers of many lands. The people of Ethiopia have always claimed her as her own, and to this day boast that her son Menelik - fruit of the union between the Queen and Solomon - stole the Ark of the Covenant from the Temple in Jerusalem after Solomon's death. For all that, historians have been more sanguine, and increasingly over the past century the academic community has veered towards consigning both royal characters to the fairyland of myth and romance. In 1952, however, Immanuel Velikovsky made an astonishing claim: He announced that not only did the Queen of Sheba exist, but that she left numerous portraits of herself as well as an account of her famous journey to Israel. The Queen of Sheba, Velikovsky announced, was none other than Hatshepsut, the female "pharaoh" of Egypt, who built a beautiful temple outside Thebes on the walls of which she immortalized the most important event of her life: an expedition to the Land of Punt. Punt, said Velikovsky, was one and the same as Israel. In this volume historian Emmet Scott brings forward dramatic new evidence in support of Velikovsky. He finds, among other things, that: - Ancient Israel, just like Punt, was a renowned source of frankincense. - Egyptian documents, generally ignored in academic circles, unequivocally place Punt in the region of Syria/Palestine. - The goddess Hathor was known as the 'Lady of Punt,' but she was also known as the 'lady of Byblos'. - The Egyptians claimed to be of Puntite origin, but Jewish and Phoenician legends claimed that the Egyptians came from their part of the world, and the Phoenicians named Misor - almost certainly the same as Osiris - as the Phoenician hero who founded the Nile Kingdom. This, and a wealth of additional evidence, has, Scott argues, shifted the burden of proof onto Velikovsky's critics; and the identification of Hatshepsut with the Queen of Sheba will eventually compel the rewriting of all the history books. Joyce Tyldesley's 'Hatchepsut' deals with the same character, but from an entirely conventional viewpoint. She never even raises the possibility that the accepted chronology of Hatshepsut's life may be wrong. In his 'Ages in Chaos,' however, Immanuel Velikovsky did raise this possibility, and was the first to suggest that Hatshepsut be identified with the Queen of Sheba. Velikovsky's work remains extremely popular, and the present book aims to take his ideas forward, exploring new evidence that has come to light since his death. This new evidence, Scott argues, puts the equation of Hatshepsut with the Queen of Sheba virtually beyond doubt. |
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IDENTITY OF THE QUEEN OF SHEBA | 35 |
THE MYSTERY OF PUNT | 47 |
Fig 3 The presentation of the gifts from the Punt Reliefs | 54 |
Fig 5 Incense trees the main object of the expedition to Punt | 55 |
Fig 6 Various supposedly African animals displayed on a sixth century church in Mount Nebo Jordan close to the Jordan Valley | 85 |
Fig 11 Botanical garden with tropical vegetation at a kibbutz in Ein Gedi | 111 |
Fig 12 Ancient agricultural terracing much of it still in use near Jerusalem | 112 |
Fig 13 Egypt and Israel in antiquity | 114 |
Fig 14 Hatshepsuts probable route to Jerusalem would have taken her through regions of unusual topography supporting exotic flora and fauna | 115 |
THE AFTERMATH | 131 |
Fig 15 Thutmose III the Napoleon of Egypt Basalt staue in Luxor Museum | 134 |
Fig 16 Map showing Thutmose IIIs conquests in Palestine The regions submitting to Thutmose III in his first year correspond rather precisely with th... | 142 |
Fig 17 Thutmose IIIs pylon at Karnak showing treasures from Kadesh | 154 |
THE JOURNEY TO PUNT AND ITS MEANING | 101 |
Fig 7 Modern Eilat with datepalms still growing along the shore | 104 |
Fig 8 Reconstruction of ancient fortress at ElatEzionGeber | 108 |
Fig 9 The Hathor Shrine at Timna | 109 |
Fig 10 The socalled Pillars of Solomon at Timna | 110 |
Fig 18 Vessels and furnishings of the Kadesh temple | 155 |
EPILOGUE | 163 |
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Abyssinian African Ages in Chaos Amarna Letters Amenhotep Amenhotep III Amon ancient appear Asia Assyrian Bahri Bible biblical Bimson Book of Kings Breasted Byblos claimed conquered Danelius Dead Sea Deir el-Bahri described Divine Land Egyptian Egyptologists Eighteenth Dynasty Eritrea Ethiopia evidence expedition fact frankincense giraffe God’s Land goddess gold Greek Hathor Hatshepsut Hebrew History ofEgypt Hittite Ibid identical identified incense inscriptions Israel Jerusalem Jordan Valley Josephus journey Kadesh Karnak kingdom land of Punt latter Lebanon likovsky Lorton Mesopotamia Middle Bronze monarch monument Mykty myrrh Netjer Nile northern Nubia Osiris Palestine Paruah Persian pharaoh Phoenician place Punt plundered Punt reliefs Puntites Queen of Sheba Ramses Ramses II Red Sea region ruler seems Shishak Solomon Solomon’s Temple Song of Songs southern Splendor of Splendors Syria Syria/Palestine terraces territory texts Thebes Thutmose III Thutmose III’s Timna tion tradition Velikovsky notes whilst words